you could write a simple shell or perl script to do this using the
/proc/mdstat as a reference, but it is a bad idea to put in a drive and have
the kernel _assume_ you want to put things back the way they were. i prefer
the control, rather than have the kernel assume.
allan
Emmanuel Galanos
try:
cd /usr/src/linux
patch -p1 raid-2.2.16-A0.txt patchoutput.txt
Does this help?
Phil
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:14:49PM +0200, Art wrote:
Dear Raiders,
[ "Raiders for the lost docs?" :']
I'm a bit lost about how to proceed. I've got the 2.2.16 kernel and tried to
apply the
I have a running system that I would like to put into raid1. However,
what I have read is that the mkraid command would erase everything. Is
this true? Will I loose my data that I have, or is it only the second
disk that bites it.
There is a way to preserve the data on the existing
On 18-Aug-99 James Manning wrote:
Speaking of which, something I didn't quite get is why a "chunk-size"
was defined for raid1... Since they're mirrors, what's a chunk size
mean in raid1?
Yes, RAID1 is a mirror, so a chink size cannot increase write speed, but when
reading this can be done "in
There is a way to preserve the data on the existing disk. Go, and fetch the
latest Software-RAID HowTo.
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
I couldn't find that part on the RAID-HOWTO. Could you send it to me?
Since it's not really referred to in the RAID-1 section (a
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Michael Ghens wrote:
I have a running system that I would like to put into raid1. However, what
I have read is that the mkraid command would erase everything. Is this
true? Will I loose my data that I have, or is it only the second disk that
bites it.
Michael, you
On 17-Aug-99 David Wood wrote:
Michael, you cannot (as yet, AFAIK) take an existing ext2 partition and
raid it without "reformatting" it. The only way to do it is to back up
your data, repartition (as necessary), set up your raid, mkfs, and then
restore the data into the new
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, David Wood wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Michael Ghens wrote:
I have a running system that I would like to put into raid1. However, what
I have read is that the mkraid command would erase everything. Is this
true? Will I loose my data that I have, or is it only the
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Christian Ordig wrote:
Michael, you cannot (as yet, AFAIK) take an existing ext2 partition and
raid it without "reformatting" it. The only way to do it is to back up
your data, repartition (as necessary), set up your raid, mkfs, and then
restore the data into the new
